{"product_id":"god-is-a-bullet-8601422722680","title":"God Is a Bullet","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGod Is a Bullet\u003c\/strong\u003e by Teran, Boston. hardcover edition. ISBN: 8601422722680.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe feral wasteland of the southern California desert and the badlands of Mexico: these are the settings for Boston Terans searing debut novel--a dark, wrenching thriller about personal conviction, retribution, and survival.\n\nFall 1970. In a remote playa a twelve-year-old boy stumbles upon a hideous scene in a dust-strewn trailer: the savage murder of a woman that will remain unsolved for twenty-five years.\n\nChristmas week, 1995. A fourteen-year-old girl is kidnapped by a bloodthirsty satanic cult that calls itself the Left-Handed Path. The leader, Cyrus, considers murder the \"ultimate freedom, ultimate joy . . . ultimate service.\" His \"tribe\" is a group of drug-fueled young psychopaths honing their skills under the tutelage of a master. Helter Skelter. And then some.\n\nBob Hightower, the girls father, is a cop, suddenly more desperate than he ever imagined possible. There are no clues to his daughters whereabouts, only a scene of unfathomable carnage--the mutilated corpses of her mother and stepfather--left behind by the kidnappers. His only hope is a fierce ex-cult member named Case Hardin, a woman tempered to an extraordinary strength by what shes endured, whos just getting off the junkie trail in a halfway house in Hollywood. Bob has absolutely no reason, and every need, to trust her.\n\nCase suspects that the killings, committed within fifty miles of each other and separated by a quarter of\na century, are part of a byzantine nightmare she knows too well, a nightmare that has now engulfed Bobs daughter. Their quest--he for his child, she to exorcise her demons--becomes a primal hunt-and-chase through a savage subculture of drugs and ritualistic violence (\"the black land of plenty\") that takes them inexorably toward the limits of physical and psychological torment and trauma.\n\nGod Is a Bullet is an indelible story of people who must discover what it means to surrender oneself\ncompletely--to drugs, or power, or faith, or love--and, when necessary, what it takes to come back. It is\na stunning debut.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45788710961205,"sku":"ByrdShop_0375401881","price":66.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780375401886_149f70ea-96e8-4b99-b900-ea39d8f90e24.jpg?v=1784748718","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/god-is-a-bullet-8601422722680","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}